Tag: Fujifilm

Divisoria, Manila’s ultimate flea market and Binondo, Manila’s chinatown for today’s road trip. My dad just decided after lunch that we go. So then I thought, some of the best food I’ve tasted are here. So here goes the Blackberry sticking out to take pictures in the middle of a chaotic crowd finding their way to their whereabouts. It’s only here that I see streets filled not by cars but by people, squeezed further in by bangketa vendors selling some of the cheapest stuff you can’t even find within your budget in the best and biggest malls around Manila. So here goes:

First for the food trip is a very delicious Korean bottled drink that me and my dad bought in a stall in a ‘mall’ called 999 mall. It tastes like grape juice that’s not purple, and it has aloe vera bits that you can liken to buko bits. 50php for a bottle.

On the road, while finding our way through the chaotic crowd, we came across a food shop that sells fried siopao. Yes! FRIED! The problem is, this is not usually the shop where we really get our fried siopao. So, not really the best I’ve eaten. 16php for one. (I’ll have the real deal later)

So we got what we went for outside Divisoria mall (which are the cheapest. Yes, the stores outside sell the cheapest stuff, but of course, at your own risk!), we even saw a couple literally trying to kill each other (not a really good sight!). In the foodcourt of 999 mall, 3F level, I tried this small pastry shop’s Macapuno Pie and Chicken Pot Pie. Really good!!! It’s Simple Bread by Chef Andrew. The Macapuno pie is not that sweet. It has the softness that you would get when you eat an egg pie with Macapuno on top that is so good! The Chicken pot pie is also the same. It is really soft. It has corn and carrots and some cream which adds to its softness. Crispy outside and soft and creamy inside. 22php each.

After Divisoria, we opted to pass by Ongpin where we get our favorite snacks when we go to this side of Manila. Near the corner of Tomas Mapua and Ongpin is an age-old store that you wouldn’t recognize just by looking at the signs (they just pasted the store’s name below a sign the reads ‘Fujifilm’. Resourceful!). They sell the perfectly tasting sugar cane juice and the best-tasting fried siopao. Yes! 2 different fried siopaos in a day. But, I tell you, this is way way better. It has a meatball with chives and subtle onions inside. The meat tastes good, lightly salted. And because it is freshly cooked, the steam just goes up after the first bite. Even though it is a store of discrete measures, people know what this store is all about even though there are no tables to accomodate diners. I tell you, the best tasting fried siopao in town! 15php for the sioapo and 12php for a glass of sugarcane juice.

The day’s not done. For dinner, we head to a vegan resto that I discovered online.

the Korean drink that tastes like grape juice with aloe vera bits 50php